OpenSUSE 10.3
I installed OpenSUSE 10.3 on my laptop last night. It had been running Ubuntu 7.04 and then 7.10 successfully for about 8 months. All was going well until I used the nice GUI tools to install nVidia graphics drivers from the repositories. Restart X and bang! Its broken. I seem to recall this exact same thing happening last time I used SUSE, about 3 years ago. Nice to see they’ve not fixed it yet then. I was planning to stick KDE 4 on it too, to see what its like. Maybe not now!
It was late by then so I just shut it down. I’ll attack it again this evening.
Steve on February 5th, 2008
I guess I got it working!
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GS Davis on February 9th, 2008
SUSE it good, but you should definitely give PCLinuxOS a try. It’s pretty dang good. I found that the wifi works better than Ubuntu or Fedora, with a D-Link card. (I have a Thinkpad R32 with a 1.6ghz processor).
Steve on February 9th, 2008
Wireless support seems to have improved dramatically in most Linux distributions over the last year or so. It wasn’t too long ago that you couldn’t configure WPA encryption with a GUI, but they all seem to do that and have great hardware support out of the box now.